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Zen does not confuse
spiritualitywith thinking about God while one is peeling the
potatoes.Zen spirituality is just to peel the
potatoes.

- Allan
Watts

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to
begin..... But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to
be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be
served, a debt to be paid.Then life would begin. At last it dawned on
me that these obstacles were my life.

- Alfred Souza

How can we ever lose interest in life?Spring has come
againAnd cherry trees bloom in the mountains.

If we do not change
our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.

-Chinese
Proverb

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There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational
andvery direct ways that separation, the boundary between
ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is
illusion.Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory
andthat reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and alsoon
gross levels of perception.- Charlene Spretnak

It is a glorious privilege to live, to know, to act, to
listen, to behold, to love. To look up at the blue summer sky;to see the
sun sink slowly beyond the line of the horizon; to watch the worlds come
twinkling into view, first one by one, and the myriads that no man can
count, and lo!the universe is white with them; and you and I are here.-
Marco Morrow

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to
look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think
multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be
dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent
in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex. - M.
Scott Peck

There isn't enough darkness in all the worldto
snuff out the light of one little candle.

Anon

DG ~ Daily Dharma

"Having had an experience of
letting go, even just once, proves beyond ashadow of a doubt that it means
getting rid of a great burden. Carryingone's hate and greed around is a
heavy load, which, when abandoned, getsus out of the duality of judgment.
It's pleasant to be without thinking;mental formations are troublesome.

"If we succeed even once or twice during a day to let go of
ourreactions, we have taken a great step and can more easily do it
again.We have realized that a feeling which has arisen can be stopped, it
neednot be carried around all day. The relief from this will be the
proofthat a great inner discovery has been made and that the simplicity
ofnon-duality shows us the way towards truth."

That which you are,
your true self, you love it, and whatever you do, you do for your own
happiness. To find it, to know it, to cherish it is your basic urge.
Since time immemorial you loved yourself, but never wisely. Use your
body and mind wisely in the service of the self, that is all. Be true
to your own self, love yourself absolutely. Do not pretend that you
love others as yourself. Unless you have realized them as one with
yourself, you cannot love them. Don't pretend to be what you are not,
don't refuse to be what you are. Your love of others is the result
of self- knowledge, not its cause. Without self-realization, no virtue
is genuine. When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows
through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally
and spontaneously. When you realize the depth and fullness of
yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are
included in your affection. But when you look at anything as separate
from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid of it. Alienation
causes fear and fear deepens alienation. It is a vicious circle. Only
self-realization can break it. Go for it resolutely.

- Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj

Pinkfish ~
Allspirit

What is the
Heart?

What is the heart? It is not human,and it is not
imaginary. I call it

you. Stately bird, who one momentcombines with
this world, and the

next, passes through the boundary tothe unseen.
The soul cannot find you

because you are the soul's wings, howit
moves. Eyes cannot see you: you

are the source of sight. You're
theone thing repentance will not repent,

nor news report. Spring
comes: oneseed refuses to germinate and start

being a tree. One poor
piece of woodblackens but will not catch fire.

The alchemist wonders
at a bit ofcopper that resists turning to gold.

Who am I that I'm
with you and stillmyself? When the sun comes up,

the complicated
nightmind of theconstellations fades. Snowforms do

not last through
July. The heart-quality embodied by our master, Shams

Tabriz, will
always dissolve the oldquarrel between those who believe in

the
dignity of a human being's decisionsand those who claim they're all
illusion.

~ Rumi

from "The Glance", trans. by Coleman
Barks

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